Kerner Commission's members included former Illinois Gov. Otto Kerner, New York Mayor John Lindsay and U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts. The backdrop: Born in Walters, Okla., ...

1970—A three-judge district court, consisting of Seventh Circuit judge Otto Kerner Jr. and district judges John W. Reynolds and Myron L. Gordon, rules that a Wisconsin law, dating from 1858 ...

As you know, this district has a longstanding and historic tradition of public corruption cases, going way back to Otto Kerner and before that, and our public corruption assistance here ...

No Governor of Illinois has ever served three terms. Last week two-term Democrat Otto Kerner, 59, announced that he would prefer not to challenge history. Kerner’s unexpected decision to quit ...